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From: rlp@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Trouble)
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Subject: Re: tandy 2000-help
Summary: a few more details
Keywords: Tandy 2000 details
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Date: 4 Dec 90 10:02:33 GMT
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In article <90337.231316RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Tandy 2000 was produced (misproduced) by Tandy about 5-6 years ago. A real

First came out in 1983.  I got mine in '84.

>Orphan. It has an 80186 microprocessor, not sure about speed. An ALMOST-MSDOS

Speed is 8 MHz.

>machine. No MSDOS software will run on it out of box; Tandy got a few

Minor quibble here.  Some MSDOS stuff will run "out of the box" on
the 2000 (eg, LeScript, a word processor, will run, from the same disk,
on a 2000, generic PC clone, or genuine IBM hardware).  Caveats:
programs must be "well behaved" from the 2000's point of view,
meaning no direct read or write operations to video, disk, keyboard,
or memory.  I believe the rule was, "If it goes through BIOS calls,
it'll be compatible."  Of course, how many programs are that well-behaved?
Most games are not, nor "desk accessory" stuff like Sidekick.


>forget others. It did great graphics. A dead-end machine.

But those of us still using 'em don't have to worry about being confused
by so many choices in hardware and software.  Also, we don't have to worry
about our machines becoming obsolete tomorrow -- they were obsolete
(from the market viewpoint, not from usability) several years ago!

Bob
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